Due in altum, `Put out into the deep water. Meditating on the call of the first four disciples as narrated by Luke (5:1-11) Cardinal Martini urges us `to confront with courage the challenges presented by evangelisation at the beginning of the third millennium, so that the many gifts poured into our hearts during the Holy Year might bear fruit, in the living memory of the two thousand years since the Incarnation of the Son of God.

Far from being marked by nostalgia or a gaze fixed on the past alone, our time is a time that is turned towards the great responsibilities that await us, towards the joyful adventure that awaits us as we throw out the nets once more and experience, as (and even more than) in the last two millennia, the power of the word of God. We are called to begin from the Word, to stake our entire life on it: `at your word, I will throw out the nets (Lk 5:5.)